Winning streak extended for 5th session

FE Report

The bourses extended their winning streak for the fifth session Sunday with rising turnover as investors continued further fresh positioning in the market, boosted by positive expectations.

With expectations staying largely positive, stocks went upward as session started and the General Index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DGEN) ended at 4,162.80 points, gaining 62.29 points or 1.51 per cent, peaked since February 24, 2013.

The other two indices also posted significant gains --- the DSEX went up by 65.17 points or 1.68 per cent to close at 3,943.24 while the blue chip index DS30 rose 19.04 points or 1.33 per cent to close at 1,445.78 points.

Overall, turnover improved further to Tk 4.76 billion, an increase of 2.14 per cent over the previous session's value of Tk 4.66 billion.

"Budgetary expectations continued to stay at the heart of sentiment drivers, while short-term oriented investors also seemed to participate strongly. Especially, expectations over allowing investment of undisclosed money seemed to influence market sentiment significantly," commented IDLC Investments, in its daily market analysis.

Meanwhile, as positivity extends to fifth sessions at a stretch, profit taking bolstered amid cautious investors. Thus, amid exuberant participation, turnover remained above Tk 4.70 billion level, said the merchant bank.

"The key benchmarks surged ahead as investors kept pouring money into the market. Active participation of investors is reflected into the rising volume trend," stated LankaBangla Securities.

"This trend is the continuation of the market rally which started from the begging of May 2013," said the stock broker.

"The uptrend continued further as investors went for buying spree anticipating capital market friendly budget. The optimism got further supports from recent refinancing proposal from the central bank," said a merchant banker.

The gainers took a strong lead over the losers as out of 283 issues traded, 244 advanced, 29 declined and 10 remained unchanged in the primer bourse.

All the major sectors advanced with NBFIs gained 4.27 per cent the biggest gainer, followed by fuel and power which was 1.89 per cent higher from the previous session. Banks and Pharmaceuticals gained 1.13 per cent and 0.66 per cent respectively while telecommunications gained 0.57 per cent gained the least.

A total of 0.133 million trades were executed in the day's trading with 148.07 million securities of trading volume. The market capitalization on the DSE stood at Tk 2,413.01 billion against Tk 2,384.08 billion in the previous session. Orion Pharma was the most traded stock of the day, following its first quarter earning declaration with shares worth Tk 229.84 million changing hands. United Airways, BSCCL, Tallu Spinning and Aamra Technologies were the day's next popular stocks.

Tallu Spinning was the day's highest gainer, posting a rise of 9.44 per cent while Sonali Ansh was the day's worst loser, slumping by 4.29 per cent.

The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also ended higher for the fifth session with the Selective Categories Index surged 135.74 points to close at 7,780.65 points.

Gainers beat losers 181 to 20, with seven issues remaining unchanged on the port city bourse that traded 15.55 million shares and mutual fund units, turnover value of Tk 436.54 million
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